Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
There are four coal-ash basins at the H.F. Lee Steam Plant. [19] An active ash pond enclosed in a dyke lies opposite Quaker Neck Lake to the north of the river. [20] There are three inactive ash basins to the west of the river further upstream. [21] These are forested, do not impound water and are normally dry. [11]
Columbia Energy Center in Wisconsin with a coal ash pond landfill. An ash pond, also called a coal ash basin or surface impoundment, [1] is an engineered structure used at coal-fired power stations for the disposal of two types of coal combustion products: bottom ash and fly ash.
The expansion of shrubs and trees, referred to as woody plant encroachment, is a prominent regime shift and risk to the existing tallgrass prairie. Animals native to the Flint Hills include the American bison , which once grazed the area by the millions and were almost entirely exterminated, but have now been reintroduced.
Little Blue Run Lake or Little Blue Run is the largest coal ash impound in the United States. [1] FirstEnergy owns the site, located in Western Pennsylvania and parts of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, and has disposed of billions of gallons of coal waste into the body of water. Several court cases have been brought against the company ...
Mar. 15—Duke Energy continues efforts to close coal ash ponds, or basins, at its former Wabash River Generating Station along the Wabash River, according to a utility spokeswoman. The work ...
A historical marker will stand near the site of the Kingston coal ash spill 15 years ago to honor the workers who cleaned it up. Kingston coal ash families, county officials prepare for 15th ...
One of the oldest continuously running coal companies in the United States was the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, founded in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1885. It lasted under that name even after its move to Denver, Colorado when the Kansas mines closed, until September 2007, when Chevron which owned the company, merged it with its Molycorp Inc. coal mining division to form Chevron Mining, thus ...
According to Georgia Power, the Scherer ash pond stopped receiving new ash in 2019. But the ash pond has still been receiving new water in the form of rain. Rain plus gravity can push the coal ash ...